From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 12 08:14:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03184 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 08:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com [24.3.128.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03178 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 08:14:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from damascus@eden.rutgers.edu) Message-Id: <199807121514.IAA03178@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from athena ([24.3.219.36]) by ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAB1771 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 08:13:59 -0700 X-Sender: damascus@eden-backend.rutgers.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 11:16:42 -0500 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Carroll Kong Subject: Dump / Restore - Good backup method? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why dont you use dump to perform the backups? It is much more easy and safe to restore all files or individual files. Cheers Jorge University of Coimbra, Portugal Wow... someone mentioned this on irc... although not #freebsd because they happened to ban my entire domain... for no apparent reason. Anyways, I digress. I am learning quickly the true powers of Unices.... dump and restore seem like the perfect guys to do this. But... I noticed, that Unix-like oses and Microsoft DO NOT corralate perfectly so ... I am a bit confused and want to make 100% sure about dump / restore. Dump can make a super "dumpfile", the level 0 argument per se. But.. if it does a full backup.. and I plan on making a .tar file on the file systems somewhere... how is that going to work? (I don't really have a tape drive). Now... If I move the system apart... I want to be able to restore into the system easily... seems like I would have to put a brand new drive into the current system I wanted to "transport" and use restore to dump into that new harddrive? -r Restore (rebuild a file system). The target file system should be made pristine with newfs(8), mounted and the user cd'd into newfs /dev/rrp0g eagle mount /dev/rp0g /mnt cd /mnt restore rf /dev/rst8 Ok... newfs /dev/rrp0g.. not sure what that means. I am more used to sd0s and wd0s.... or that new argument "eagle". Not sure.. i always thought newfs was something like newfs -b 8192 /dev/sd0s3. Ok... now mounting.. no problem. And restoring... hm... restore rf (in this man page example, that's a tape drive, right? For my case, I would be outputting and restoring from a solid file. Not that there is a real difference between a file and a device since they are technically the same. :) ) But basically, this is the best method, eh? Sure seems safer than my method and I think restore can do over the network restoration. I guess I could work something out there. Sorry for being very ... "lame" in asking such questions... just that ever since I have been banned from #Freebsd and the webpage, although pretty good for the beginning, loses it's affect, I have no where else to go. :) Thanks for your patience guys. -Carroll Kong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message